Monthly Archives: April 2018

Joint Public Issues Team Blog Shooting the messenger: DWP’s responds to news that UC Universal Credit is driving Foodbank use Posted: 26 Apr 2018 06:53 AM PDT Foodbank use is up 13% across the UK but in areas with Universal … Continue reading →

The Methodist Church 26 April 2018 Can’t read this? Click here  The Week Ahead   Helloeveryone and welcome to The Week Ahead. This week, we have news of the impact changes to the benefits system are having on food banks and a final chance … Continue reading →

Joint Public Issues Team Blog Deal or No Deal Posted: 26 Apr 2018 02:07 AM PDT Rachel Allison explains the uncertainty about post-Brexit devolution settlements and why the Welsh and Scottish Governments no longer agree.   Yet again devolution is … Continue reading →

I have always found problematic the notion that animals do not have souls. No animal on earth can be as nasty as a nasty human. And yet, if we are to believe it, God made us the caretakers. Odd.   A Dog is a Small Shred of God A dog is a small shred of… Continue reading →

Thirty-one organisations, including the United Reformed Church, wrote to Boris Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on 16 April 2018 to urge the UK government to use the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) held between 23 April and… Continue reading →

The Methodist Church View this email in your browser News release 24 April 2018 Universal Credit is driving families to food banks Facebook Twitter Universal Credit must ensure families are fed: • 51% rise in food bank use in Universal Credit Areas; … Continue reading →

The Methodist Church 19 April 2018 Can’t read this? Click here  The Week Ahead   Hi everyone, and welcome to this bumper edition of The Week Ahead. We will be celebrating Vocations Sunday which encourages us to consider God’s calling. Mike Ivatt will be staffing the … Continue reading →

Joint Public Issues Team Blog ‘If you lay down with dogs you get fleas’. My personal experience of the hostile environment. Posted: 18 Apr 2018 09:32 AM PDT Madalena Leao tells of how one small personal experience demonstrates the very … Continue reading →

View this email in your browser News release 18 April 2018 “Reforms are urgent, now is the time for tough action”: Dame Margaret Hodge Facebook Twitter Christian leaders united in the House of Lords on Tuesday 17 April to challenge … Continue reading →

Thousands of men and women who arrived in the UK as children during the first wave of Commonwealth immigration now face being threatened with deportation. The group, known as the Windrush generation – is named after the HMS Empire Windrush which, in 1948, brought workers from the West Indies to Britain. Under the 1971 Immigration… Continue reading →